Pao K. Wang is a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he has been teaching and conducting research for more than 30 years. He has won many recognitions for his contributions in atmospheric science including the Alexander von Humboldt Award, an S. C. Johnson Distinguished Fellowship and election as a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the Meteorological Society of Taiwan. Professor Wang has been the principal investigator of numerous research grants sponsored by NSF, EPA, NASA and DOE, covering topics in cloud physics, cloud dynamics, aerosol physics, air pollution and historical climatology. He is an associate editor of Atmospheric Research and European Journal of Physics-Plus, a member of the international advisory board of Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and is also currently an advisory committee member of the Research Center for Environmental Change (RCEC), Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

• Preface; 1. Observation of clouds; 2. The shape and size of cloud and precipitation particles; 3. Molecular structures of water substance; 4. Bulk thermodynamic equilibrium among water vapor, liquid water, and ice; 5. Surface thermodynamics of water substance; 6. Aerosol in the atmosphere; 7. Nucleation; 8. Hydrodynamics of cloud and precipitation particles; 9. Diffusion growth and evaporation of cloud and precipitation particles; 10. Collision, coalescence, break-up and melting; 11. Cloud drop population dynamics in warm rain process; 12. Fundamental cloud dynamics; 13. Numerical cloud models; 14. Cloud electricity; 15. Clouds-environment interaction; References; Index.

'Finally a comprehensive textbook, filling an empty slot between mainly descriptive and encyclopaedic cloud physics books. It is carefully written, covering all relevant aspects, and starts from first principles in a pedagogic way: invaluable for cloud physics teachers and graduate students.' Andrea Flossmann, Université Blaise Pascal de Clermont Ferrand